Gift like genius I often think only means an infinite capacity for taking pains.

Great goals make great people. People cannot hit what they do not aim for.

I don't know if ghouls are allowed to live either. But there has to be a reason we exist.

I believe in the future a new Dante will write a new Divine Comedy.

If it ain't on a page, it ain't on a stage.

Do not be caught up in materialism, one of the real plagues of our generation-that is, acquiring things, fast-paced living, and securing career success.

It's been my dream to be in a Western, and to be able to wear the clothes, have a big gun, wear a big hat, have a big horse, and be a take-no-prisoners lady in the Civil War era.

Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.

We have a great regard for old age when it is bottled.

I also think that life itself is both indifferent to us and the source of all of our joys and everything that we love. And it's necessary to accept the one in order to love the other.

Death lies on her like an untimely frost.